Obedient husband walks slowly. Arrives home after dawn when wife's lover has gone — Mythoi

Motif

Obedient husband walks slowly. Arrives home after dawn when wife's lover has gone.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Foolish extremes. · Foolish extreme. · view the constellation · filed as J2523.2

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under The obedient husband: the leave of absence. His wife says, "You may go away for a little while." He stays away for days and then sends a messenger to his wife asking if he has been away long enough.

Filed beside it

Obedient husband hangs his wife. Wife had wished only to test her husband's love for her

Carried in tale types

The Obedient Husband · ATU 1409 1 recorded variant

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